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Awesome! I’m going in. Wish me luck.
edit: I bought tickets in section 1. It didn’t give a row or seat number. This is convenient because I will be on the road Friday and would have had a hard time buying tickets.
An article in today’s LA Times says there are too many acts touring at the same time this summer. It also mentions Live Nation turning off its customers by gouging them with high prices and fees.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-concert-downturn-20100716,0,7759782.story
Here is an article in yesterday’s LA Times about their new album:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/07/chrissie-hynde-pretenders-jp-jones.html
I won’t shed a tear. I read an article about Azoff around the time of the merger. He seemed like quite the asshole. It said he once went to a restaurant and set his menu on fire when he wasn’t served quickly enough.
The last 2 LW shows I attended at the Ventura Theater had everone sitting in plastic chairs between the bar and the pit area. What they called the VIP area was in the pit area, which was roped off from the upper area there were a few rows of seats, and in front of the seats were some tables where people were eating dinner. There was no dancing area that I can remember. Although I did see Paul rocking out a bit.
Classic. I’ll have to cancel the hit I put out on the promoter.
By the way, I paid $144.90 for 2 tickets.
The problem with trying not to do business with Ticketmaster/Live Nation is they have all the best venues locked up. As Pearl Jam found out, you can’t tour by just playing rinky dink shitholes.
The music industry has turned full sail into the dark side from greed. There are lots of people like us who still want to go out and see shows and all we get is the shaft over and over.
I don’t know how someone like LW can make a living when people stopped buying records and the live music business has become unfriendly to its customers.
Rant over. 😥
